One of Earth's Last Great Wilderness Areas Is Five Meters Off This Beach (opens in new tab)

From the surface, the coastline outside Cape Town looks barren\. Ordinary\. Unremarkable\. Five to ten meters below the surface, billions of animals live inside a towering three-dimensional kelp forest — one of the last great wilderness areas on the planet\. One diver who grew up in the Cape Flats — one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in South Africa — learned to dive in these waters\. He came back, again and again, for the silence\. \"I come to find peace and I learned how to control all...